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'Startup' will glitterbomb your least favourite people

Someone ruined your day? Why not take sweet, petty revenge by sending them a surprise envelope full of glitter, guaranteed to get everywhere and annoy them for, potentially, weeks? Such fabulous vengeance can now be easily attained, thanks to ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com.

Calling glitter "the herpes of the craft world" -- and it should be noted that the whole site is written with the kind of NSFW potty mouth that can only be born from years of minor frustrations, finally boiling over into a shimmering rage -- the service will send an envelope crammed with powdery shiny stuff anywhere in the world for the princely sum of $9.99 Australian (about £5.37). Even better, they'll cram in a note telling the recipient how much of a jerk they are.

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Yes, this is an actual service you can pay real Earth money for.

What's more, there's apparently a long-ignored market for glittery retribution. "The response has been f***ing huge," the site's founder Mathew Carpenter tells WIRED.co.uk. "We've been upvoted on Reddit thousands of times, the amount of times the website has been shared on Facebook and Twitter has been more than I can count whilst drunk, and for some reason we're making a tonne of money. Who knew, aye?"

Although the site declares, with delicious irony, that the only thing the owners hate more than glitter is "the soulless people who get their jollies off by sending glitter in envelopes", Carpenter doesn't fear much comeback. In fact, he encourages it, telling us "No-one is as stupid as us. We welcome & encourage competition as it means we don't have to deal with stupid f***ing glitter". "I'm the exact opposite of the traditional entrepreneur. I found a problem, attempted to solve it, failed, so now I'm shipping that problem onto the masses," Carpenter adds, when asked how the site came about.